Deleting remote master branch, refused due to bein

Question

How do I delete a remote master branch from GitHub/Bitbucket?

I'm trying:

# git push bb --delete master
remote: bb/acl: user is allowed. accepted payload.[K
remote: error: refusing to delete the current branch: refs/heads/master[K
To ssh://[e-mail]/user/reponame.git
 ! [remote rejected] master (deletion of the current branch prohibited)
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://[e-mail]/user/reponame.git' 

Also I tried

git push bb :master

But all this is not work.

Answer 1

In the settings block on the options tap in the settings page (well, just click on the Settings tab on your github repo page), you are able to change the default branch (you need to have the other default branch on github as well).

After you have done that, you are able to remove it:

$ git push bb :master

Answer 2

Note: for BitBucket, you would change the default branch by accessing the settings of your repo, and changing the branch at the "Main branch" combo box.

Once the main branch is no longer master, then you can push and remove master.